RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.

REMEMBERING and restoring - Lost records, unmarked graves ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... National Records, and Griffith's collection was a windfall for
researchers
trying to restore the loss. "They were astonished, because they not only
got files, ...
<http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/05/30/news/top_stories/52905193344.txt>

SHREDDERS foreseeing a flurry of new orders
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Paddy Bond foresees a busy future for her document destruction company,
thanks to a new federal law requiring businesses to securely dispose of
consumer and ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050530/BUSINESS/505300332>

POLICE struggle to identify who commissioned espionage
Globes Online - Israel
... the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) yesterday that the police had
taken
in for questioning several senior employees to "identify confidential
documents found at ...
<http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=918972&fid=942>

COMPANIES in shock over espionage
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel
... "They were called to identify confidential documents of Bezeq which
were found on the premises of competing entities, and to assess the
extent
of the damage ...
<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1117420058158>

TOWNSHIP targets improvements to "antiquated" record-keeping ...
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
... is antiquated, with boxes of paper files stored in ... All township
property records, as well as Planning Board ... of Adjustment and other
important documents will be ...
<http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050530/NEWS02/505300331/1070>


VETERANS' tales, for the record
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... But then an out-of-the-blue e-mail message from a reader in Garner
and a follow-up conversation with the state's military archivist brought
me up short. ...
<http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2457365p-8861862c.html>

IMAGING Technology Makes Ancient Text Readable
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... Many of the scrolls had been lovingly unrolled, while others were
unforgivably
torn apart by discoverers and early archivists to get at the text, but
...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900811.html>

PLUCKING 9/11 Objects From History's Dustbin
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... No one can say with accuracy how many private 9/11 collections
exist,
but curators, archivists and other experts expect more to come to light
at anniversaries ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/arts/30coll.html>

OFFICIAL back on the job today
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Whiteside said administrators found no evidence that Silva willfully
withheld public documents but determined that she "failed fully to
comply
with ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/11773702.htm>

KAISER'S Prescription for Medicine is Digital
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... The movement has stirred opposition from some privacy advocates, who
say electronic records may be harder to keep confidential than paper
ones.
...
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-kaiser30may30,1,3504499.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>

HUNT begins for a home for Thompson's archives
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... This decades-old knick-knack is among the multitude of items set to
become part of the writer's archives, which Thompson's family and estate
executors expect ...
<http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3816513,00.html>

DESERT train depot back on track
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... of the California Cultural and Historical Endowment have awarded a
grant of $499,500 to build a library to hold the Mojave Desert Archives,
gathered by Western ...
<http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2895178,00.html>

OLECULAR Memory is the future of Digital Storage
Mobilemag.com - USA
A group of Chemists at Glasgow University have engineered a tiny memory
molecule cluster which is capable of storing large amounts of data on
a surface 10,000 ...
<http://www.mobilemag.com/redirect.php?content=4054>

MEDICAL records lawsuit filed
Beaver County Times - Beaver County,PA,USA
... petition seeking a Commonwealth Court order to require a diagnostic
imaging center that had a facility in Moon Township to release medical
records to patients ...
<http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14609445&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478569&rfi=6>

The Charleston Gazette, Sun, 29 May 2005 10:22 PM PDT
Sandy Wells: Innerviews
http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Columns/2005052917
The perfect job landed right in his lap. Plop. Just like that.
Twenty-two years later, Richard Fauss still marvels at his good
fortune. From boyhood,
he loved history, especially 20th century history. He also enjoyed
photography.

Sun-Sentinel, Mon, 30 May 2005 0:13 AM PDT
Shredder is a necessity
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-ybbiztech30may30,0,7861176.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines
Dumpster divers beware: When it comes to destroying documents, Lesley
Gillespie has a simple policy. If a paper headed for the wastebasket
fell instead
into the wrong hands and could hurt the company, its clients or its
employees,
then it goes through the shredder.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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